The fix was in for the 2017 Nobel Prize for physics announced last week. Nothing was going to dislodge the sensational discovery of gravitational waves in 2015 by two linked laboratories in the United States.
The waves, which are vibrations in space itself which propagate at the speed of light, were predicted by Albert Einstein in his 1915 general theory of relativity which introduced a completely new way of thinking about gravity, as well as providing an explanation for yet-to-be discovered black holes and the expansion of the universe.
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